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THE ST. LANDRY CLARION "Here Shall The Press The People's Rights Maintain, Unawed by Influence and Unbribed by Cain." VOLUME XXV-NO. 29. OPELOUSAS, LA., SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1915. $1.00 PER YEAR TO BEGIN DRILLING FOR OIL REAL SOON Driller Reports that Chances of Dis covering Oil at Mallet Are Good.. NORTHERN CAPITALISTS INTERESTED IN COMPANY As Soon as Stock Will Have Been Sold in Opelousas Petroleum Co. Work Will Begin The people of St. Landry and Evangeline parishes will soon know whether or not oil is in ex istence in that section of St. Lan dry and Evangeline known as Mal let and L'anse aux Pailles, accord ing to a statement made by C. J. Thompson, orgapizer of the Opelou sas Petroleum Company. Mr. Thompson is very enthusias tic over the prospects of discover ing oil near Mallet and those con nected with the company are bent upon setting to work, drilling for the valuable mineral, as soon as the stocks in the company will all have been placed. It is understood that several prominent Northern capitalists are taking interest in the company and it would' not be surprising if a large portion of the stock of the company should be sold to North erners. The company, which has as its president pr. J. A. Haas. engaged the services of a competent driller, who inspected the territory, where wells will be drilled in the near future, reported that the chances of discovering oil in the Mallet L'anse aux Pailles sections of St. Landry and Evangeline are excel lent. The officers of the oil company are confldendt that drilling will be started within the next few weeks, when it is hoped that some of the largest oil wells in the state will be brought in. OPERATING PORCH CHAIR FACTORY. The Stewart-Weir 'Manufacturing Company, owned by W.: T. Stewai't and Harvey Weir, is the latest en terprise to make its appearance in Opelousas. This company is man ufacturing the most comfortable reclining porch chairs and swings on the market; the demand for these chairs has greatly exceeded the output of the Amy factory in 'the western portion of Opelousas. Messrs. Stewart and Weir stated during the week that as soon as these chairs were being built they would ship them either to New Or leans or some pbints in Texas. There is also a great deal of local demand, as the company is making these swings and chairs at a very reasonable price, at present. WORK ON PORT BARRE ROAD STARTED SThe Port Barre road is now well under way of construction, Con tractor Fisher having started last week on his last lap of his contract with the parish police jury. The Port Barre road, which has been for many years one of the worst highways in the parish, will, after being constructed, come up to the expectation of the parish good roads committee and the road su pervisor. Mr. Fisher stated during the week that the road would be completed within the next month or six weeks should the rain not interfere. -- - o -" FIRST COMMUNION MAY 16th. Father John Engberink will give the First Holy Communion to near ly two hundred children an Sun day, May 16th. For the past week the well-known rector of the St. Landry Catholio Church has been examining the catechism pupils, the examination proving very successful First Communion Day i one of the greatest events of the year for the Catholics of Opelousas, several thousand people, journeying from various sections of the parish, to witness the ceremony at the local church. It is expected that there will be a record-breaking attend ance, as the First Communion Class is one of the largest in recent years. LOCAL TEAM EASILY DEFEATS LAFAYETTE L irge Crowd Witnessed Opening Game at Comeau Park VISITORS ARE ALLOWED ONE HIT BY FLUKER Veltin's There Base Hit in Eighth Brings Cheers from Crowd as Two Runners Speed Across the Plate With a large crowd of fans pres ent, on last Sunday Opelousas de feated the Lafayette club at the opening game, the score being 8 to 0. The game was featured by the pitching of Fluker and a three-bag gar in the eighth inning by the "Mighty Tobe" with two men on. The Lafayette boys played fairly good ball, but were entirely out of their class. The game was a walk over for the locals from start to finish. At no time did Lafayette come anywhere near reaching the home plate. Fluker had them at his mercy throughout the nine innings. For the first three innings the Lafayette boys went out in ro tation. Game by innings: Ist. Lafayette:Dupree to Thomp son to Boudreaux. Lorry struck out. Peck to Thompson to Boud reaux. 'Opelousas: Aycock singled to right: Riza sacrificed and sent Aycock to second. Boudreau sin gled to left and Ayco;k scored. Colgrove hit to right, scoring BoulU reaux. Colgrove .stole se"-.nd and went to third on a wild ball. Was caught off third. Bodie walked. Dejean to short and beat the ball to )rst. Thompson struck out. 2nd.. Lafayette: Hawkins to Riza to Boudreaux. Berge'on flew out to left." Grouchy struck out. Opelousas: Velti ,fanned. Fluker was out from short to first. Ay cock' fanned. 3rd. Newsham to Thompson to' Boudreaux. Verte fanned. Lacoste flew out to short. Opelousas: Riza to 'short to first: Boudreaux flew out to short. Colgrove fanned. 4th. Lafayette: Dupree went to first on Thompson's error. Thomp son fumbled and threw wild to first. Dupree went to second on the throw. Lorry flew out to short. Peck struck out. Dupree stole third. Hawkins struck a hot one to Fluker and was out at first. Opelousas: Bodie out from sec ond to first. Dejean drove a long fly to left. Thompson struck out. Lafayette: Bergeron hit to cen ter and stole third. 5th. Grouchy, Newsham and Verte struck out in rotation. Ope lousas: Veltin fanned. Fluker went out from short to first. Ay cock fanned . 6th. Lafayette: Lacoste went out on a fly to second. Dupree struck out. Lorry went out on a fly to center. Opelousas: Riza walked, and went to second on Boudreaux's sacrifice. Riza scored on the wild throw.of Peck to second. Colgrove and Bodie fanned. 7th. Lafayette: Peck and Haw kins fanned. Bergeron went to first being hit by Fluker, but was caught in attempting to steal sec ond. Opelousas: Dejean singled through short. Thompson fanned. Veltin singled to center, advancing Dejean to third. Veltin stole sec ond. Fluker went out from short to first, scoring Dejean; Veltin went to third. Aycock went to first on an error of Bergeron, scor ing Veitin. Riza went out on a fly ball to short. 8th. Lafayette: Grouchy and Newsham fanned. Veret safe at first on Boudreaux's ,error, but was caught by Dejean in attempting to steal second. Opelousas: Boud reaux fanned. Colgrove flew out to left and was out. Bodie singled to center. Dejean went to first 'on Veret's error, advancing Bodie to third. TI :mpson went to first on Veret's error. Veltin hit for three bases in right scoring Thompson and Dejean. Fluker went out to short to first. 9th. Lafayette: Lacoste, Dupree and Lorry went out. in rotation,. To-morrow Opelousas will cross bats with the fast Welsh team on the local diamond; the batteries have not yet been announced. LJAIWTELL llShWAY IS FINALLY COMPLETED Contractor Fisher's Work on Road Has Been Accepted DAYS WADING THROUGH WATER TO MALLET PAST Third Gravel Road Built in Parish Splendid, DIespite Fact that It Was Thought A Failure at First The Lawtell gravel road was fi nally completed last week, Contrac tor Fisher having put on the finish ing touches to one of the most im portant highways in St. Landry par ish. This road was the cause of con siderable controversy several weeks ago, between the engineers and contractors, the police jury and tax-payers, but to the great satisfaction of the property own ers, and to the credit of the police jury, Engineer Robert and contrac tors Fisher and Hidalgo, this road was made one of the best, if not the best in the parish. After it was shown that the grav el would not stand the water in Mc Kinney Flat the police juiry order ed Engineer Robert to have the road elevated, wherever the rain a ater would pass over; it. Mr. Hidalgo was given the contract for this work and within a few weeks he had raised this important highway, be tween Opelousas and Lawtell com pletely out of reach of water, af ter which Contractor Fisher had no difficulty in constructing a model gravel road. The parish accepted the work of Contractor Fisher, the jurors are satisfied that their attempt to give the western citizens of St. Landry a model road has been successful and the property owners of Lawtell; Mallet, Prairie Ronde and Plaque mine Point are happy over the thought that the days of wading through water for three and four miles, coming to Opelousas, are no more. They now boast of having a real good and substantial' high way. MRS. JONES IMPROVING Mrs. A. C. Jones, wife of the well known superintendent of the city electric and water plant, who was taken to Touro Infirmary in New Orleans, and operated upon by Dr. Denegre Martin, for appendicitis, is reported greatly improved since the operation. Mrs. Jones is now on the road to recovery and her many friends ex pect to see her back in Opelousas within the next few days. FREEZES CREAM WITH ELECTRIC MOTOR The Opelousas Kandy Kitchen, owned by Mamalikis &' Ballas, is now ready to freeze ice cream in any quantity at a minute's notice, as that firm has recently put in a five-horsepower electric motor, be sides a fifty gallon freezer. All that is necessary at the Kandy Kitchen in order to freeze fifty gallons of cream, is to put on the "juice" after the cream has been placed in the freezer-the motor does the rest of the work within a few minutes. The ,rand. Kitchen, in order to thoroughly acquaint its patrons with the cream frozen by electric ity, will have an "Introductory Day" at which time this cream will be introduced to all who will go to the Kandy Kitchen. The cream will be served free of charge. CLARION INSTALLS ELECTRIC MOTORS With the arrival of a one-fourth Shorsepower electric motor secured from the General Electric Com pany, through A. C. Jones, of this city, ·the St. Landry Clarion is now equipped with two motors. The management of the Clarion assures its subscribers that within the next month or two this paper will be numbered among the best country weeklies in the South. Since the linotype operator is per fecting herself each week it is thought that within a reasonable time our readers will be getting a larger amouunt of reading matter than ever before. 3 eooo..O@oo...*O...*Oeo..Oooo*.Oeoo., SSouthwestern Reflections "O""...e."...Oe...O"e....-Oe.-O.."".O Although the drought did retard operations and prevented the early bird from getting the worm, yet that need not mean any loss in the final wind-up. Following the warm rains incident to this season of the year growth will be rapid and it be hooves the farmer to keep ahead of the grass and give his crops prop er cultivation. Put a ban upon the big turning plow in the cultivation of the crops, for those plows have cost the farm ers of Southwest Louisiana more than flood and drought,- storm and hail have ever done. It will pay the farmer to burn it if the temptation. to use it is too strong otherwise. Don't forget the hog. All over Southwest Louisiana clerks, rail road agents and other enterprising young men and boys are beginning to note the opportunity for living at home and making money on the side by the production of a few hogs. The farmer can do that and so can everybody else. Inasmuch as these things are part of the farmer's necessary business there can be no excuse for him to neglect it. But the usual excuse is that he is "Too busy to pay atten tion to such small matters." It would be just as reasonable for the banker to say that he is too busy to pay any attention to bills receiv able. There is only failure ahead of the farmer who tries to make cotton, i or rice, or sugar cane to sell in order to buy-meat; for the very 4 simple reason that he can produce l meat cheaper than he can produce either of the crops mentioned. Nor should the splendid and .cer tain profits from poultry and egg production be overlooked. Tthis is an industry that should commend itself to the girls and women on 'the as well as to those.who have a rea sonable amount of back yard space in the towns and cities. Poultry production is light, pleasant and profitable; and yet it is a- science worthy of commanding the talent of the savant. When one, considers that the small farmers adjacent to Morris town, Tennessee, shipped out eggs, and poultry to the value of two mil Ilion dollars in 1914, the import ance of the industry and its possi bilities become apparent. Not only is there pin money in it for the women and girls of the farms, but there are fortunes in it for the business men who undertake it in telligently. Then there is the kitchen garden. Nature has provided for abundance of vegetables during the summer season because at that season of the year vegetables constitute the ideal diet of the human systeh. When warm weather comes on meats are heating and should, therefore, be eaten sparingly, while vegetables meet the situation pre cisely, both from a hygienic stand point and from the standpoint of the gourmand. So no one should be without a kitchen garden, and should the kitchen garden be expanded to en able it to produce a little more than is necessary for the family sub sistence and a few bunches or crates for the market, it will be all the better. A Resolution of Respect Opelousation, La, April 28, 1915. By.joint resolutions offered by R. E. Lee Camp No. 14, U. C, V, andl" by the Gordon Chapter 1470, U. -D.' C., on the death of General Thomas J. Shaffer, we tender to his be 'reaved 'family our sincere and heartfelt sympathy and condolence We realize that in his death the La. Division of U. C.' V. and U. D.G. has. lost a true and devoted mem ber. We will miss him much, for his services were great. He is not dead but simply passed away be yond the mist of eternity that binds us here below. Signed: Mrs. C. P. Richard, Arthur Simoini President. Commander. Mrs. A. V. Allen, C. P. Richard Secretary. Adjutant. Chapter No. 1470, Camp No. 14, U. D. G. U. C. V. IS FREED OF CHARGE OF KILLING WHITE Negro Tried for Murder of Placidel] lEnimonet AcquLten YOUNG PERRAULT WINS FIRST CRIMINAL CASE Jury Had No Difficulty in Arriving At Dicision in Case of Clebert Mathews-Defende dby Perrault L. L. Perrault, who has been practicing law for only about five months, came out gloriously victo rious in his first criminal case on last Friday night, when the jury in the case of the state vs. Clebert Mathews, black, accused of killing Placide Emmonet, white, of Leon ville, on the night of August 1, 1914, returned a verdict of not guilty. This was the first time that attorney Perrault pleaded to a jury of twelve men, in behalf of a pris It was shown that Placide Em mopet was killed by a 38 calibre pistol bullet; it was also shown that Clebert Mathews had shot in the air with a shot-gun with an at tempt to scare away the white men, who were. driving towards Leon ville from Arnaudville. The white men who were in a wagon, while in a drunken condition, stopped sev eral negroes in a wagofi and be-' gan.tirowing bottles at them, and when Mathews and, another of the 1 party came running towards the wagon in' which the blacks- were, Otley Viltz, who is at large shot 5 Emmonet with the pistol, causing E death the next morning., At the ' same time .the accused fired inathe I air, to scare away the whites. - Mr. Perrault, who is a promising i youtg 'lawyer, received the con- a gratulations of his malny' friends, as t well as of the members of the lo- t cal bar for being victorious in his first criminal case. FARMERS DELAYED IN PLANTING COTTON e The farmers in this and Evange line parishes have been compelled to delay the planting of their cot ton. Very few farmers have any cotton planted as yet and it is re ported that those who have plant ed, the cotton is now up. Many advocaters of late planting are confident that this late plant ing of cotton is the indication of a record crop in this section as the boll weevils will not be able to affect the young plants. EDITOR LEGISLATIVE CANDI DATE Editor Eugene Shanks, one of the youngest and most popular journal. ists of Louisiana, is a candidate for member of the Lower House of the 'General Assembly from Allen par- I ish. Mr. Shanks is a recent addi- i tion to the splendid citizenry of our sister parish; he has been fighting for the cause of his parish, since assuming charge of the Kinder Ga zette and his friends .claim that just as he has been fighting so no bly for his adopted home in the journalistic field, likewise he will fight for her in the halls of the legislature. RETURNS FROM SOULE'S Theogene Bertrand, Jr., the son .of one. of the best known residents of Prairie Ronde, retuinod t, Ope lousas on Sunday evdning, after spending several. ipon~hs in New Orleans, where he was attendirs the 'Somie Business C:ll ge. Be sides his trunks and other para phanalia youn& Bertrand brought back Withi hiim Iris "sheep sdkin," haing bee" radatifed at Soule's. HEALTH CAR The Louisiana Board of Health ear will arrive'in this eity at mid night, Sunday, May 2nd, and will remain here the entire day of the 3rd; On account of late notifica tlion no publicity could be given the approaching visit of the car. IiSTRICT LINES T I BE FINALLY DRAWN Meeting of Plaquemine and Mallet Committees Enthusiastic TO MEET IN OPELOUSAS ON TUESDAY MORNING Mallet and Plaquemine Drainage Districts to Be Formally Organ ized at Littell & Lawler's Office. A very enthusiastic drainage meeting was held at Joe Boone's in (Plaquemine Point on Tuesday even [ng, the committees of the Mallet and Plaquemine Drainage Districts, with Dr. Paul Foster as chairman c of both committees, having gath ered at the Plaquemine store to decide upon a dividing line be tween the two drainage districts. Dr. Foster, who has been a lead- t er for progressive movements in y the sixth ward, and who is the s representative of his people in the c police jury, in speaking of the F meeting of the two 'committees stated "At no time, since I can re (member, does it seem more certain 'that our people are enthusiastical fly in favoi' of drainage. The meet- I ing of the two committees prdved d to be a great source of satisfaction v to the drainage boosters and I con- .s scientiously believe that this meet ing inspired many of our taxpayers v to gve their updivided support to c the cause." . On next Tuesday evening the v same committees, with an addition- c al member on each committee, will meet at the offices of Littell & s Lawler, when the boundary lines n of the two districts will be decided t upon. James O. Chachere has been i added to the Plaquemine colnmit- s tee and A. M. Young hat been added a to the Mallet committee. COLLEGE NOTES. , Last week the College DYine del- r ebrated .their return home by de- b feating the State Normal team in d two games. In the first contest, the sI Normal had a lead of three runs, i when the Grand Coteau hitters got p after brown's benders and sent b them in all directions. Vandegaer t relieved Young in the final innings p and struck out four of six Normal e batters. In the second game, Van- v degaer pitched air-tight ball, while b the Collegians romped on the big n Normal hurler for' five runs. The t scores were: 5-4 and 5-1. On Sunday, the first splash was y heard in the swimming. pool. Now every day sees the crowd of eager swimmers make for the refreshing waters. This is an added joy for the lovers of springtime. On Friday, May 7th, at 3:30 P. M., will participate in the Annual Elo cution Contest. Two medals are to be awarded to the victors and a' large attendance is expected to be present. The Pineville team plays t weo games here this week and as we found these opponents easy on the road, we expect to duplicate the double victory. L. S. U. Graduate Instructor at Chicago University Mr. Leo. J. Lassalle, a graduate oft. S. U. and now a professor at Pennsylvania State College, has ac ceptej an offer to teach in the phys ics department of Chicazo Univer sity during the sunmmer term. Mr. Lassalle was at one time an assist ant in the physics department -of L. S. U.-The L. S. U.- Reveille, POSTAL EXAMINATION TO FILL TWO POSITIONS There will be held an examina tion in this city on May 22nd, un der the supervision of. the local members of the Civil Service Com mission, for the purpo of choos ing eligibles for the position of su ral carriers, in this parish. The examination will be held in the Federal building in this city. DIVISION OF SH00OOL FUND ASKED BY MANY E. MI. Boagni and Several Promin ent Taxpayers Urge Board CLAIM OPELOUSAS NOT RECEIVING ITS SHARE "City Pays Over 25 Per Cent. of Parish School Tax and Receives One-Seventh of Moriey."--Booegi Several of the prominent tax payers who registered their ballots ,against the proposed school main tenance tax on Tuesday of last week claim that they were against the tax, not on account of being opposed to furthering the educa tional cause , but because they. think that Opelousas pays enough tax already to maintain its schools. E. M. Boagni, one .of the largest tax-payers of St. Landry parish, a prominent capitalist of this city,: stated on Tuesday morning: "Why . :ý cannot the parish school board a p propriate money to the various school districts proportionate to the tax paid by these districts: The town of Opelousas, alone, pays .. over 25 per cent. of the school talx: : and yet we are asked to vote.iat,-i ditional tax to run our own sehoiol, while our money is being used .; some other school. Mr. Boagni and several 6oterws who take this view of the situation claim thah Opelousas pays enough..i tax annually to run its high schoo0 without any aid from the' 'tiy,. council. "How' can we expect to run `ous"`i school," is asked "when we ply more .than one-fourth of the en tire parish tax-and in return arei` given b#J the school board only on4': seventh of the !Money to operate..i : our school." The creation of a ' governingf tbard,. with the principal 4f ttie'= : Opelousas high school, as ex-ofifoo. + ; chairman, composed of men a, wonlen, whose` childien are ' rolled in the Opelousas school,a is:i being.urged by the tax-payers who defeated the school tax. as Well se: several who voted in favor of itie This board would be eleetod by tleib people of Opelousas to attendrio the business of the schools in, tahis dis- ` trict, compile a budget of e ;.. penses each year, so that the ity. council would know in advanqe whether or not the schools woa be in need of the saloon, licen~, money, thereby assuring the pt; trons of the Opelousas Higi School a nine- months' session eachs'.LL year. ''i WASHINGTON GETS FIRST RURAL ROUTE The Washington postofiee is t$o . have its first rural route on June,. 1, according to a letter received .by Dr. Ladislas Lazaro from the posttal department at Washington. ,··. Since Dr. Lazaro has been reps;e-! senting the Seventh Louisiana fDisn~i trict in Congress twenty rutr routes have been established in the district, two routes having been or.-'ii dered established in St. LandryF parish recently, despite the finani.z-:i cial l.ipression exisfting i thts.i country, on account of the Euroii'" pean war. :' "With reference to your person.- - Following is the letter reeived::: by Dr. Lazaro from A. B. Foster,: acting fourth assistant postmaster: general: al inquiry of the 19th instant, I beg to inform you that the estab.. lishment of service on rural route No. i Washington, Louisiana, as : petitioned for by C . M. Kilpatrick, and others has been authorized et fective June 1, 1915, cohti.inenti~d i: bn the receipt from the .pobli~ - ter of a certificatee .that L;h#~ -,: quired number of proslective pasi/ rons have qualified as such by the-: erection of approved boxes." . . Several other routes for the Sev-.. enth District have been approved and Just as soon as the revenues of: the poatofBfce ,department, whikek; has been decreased on account of' a the foreign war, will permit, will i also be ordered established by the postal department.